10/09
2012
2012
I’m Glenna Gordon, an American photographer and journalist, presently commuting between West Africa and Brooklyn. Previously, I lived in Liberia. And before that, I lived in Uganda. I’ve traveled and worked in over a dozen countries in Africa.
This blog is named after a found object — a plastic lion that was in a crate of discarded items a friend and a few other artists had gathered. I sat on their roof in Nakasero, Kampala back in 2006, sorting through the crate. On that day, I was looking for something. “You are lost!” Ugandas say. But, on that day, I’d found this discarded kid’s toy, made in China on the cheap, that somehow ended up in East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint-chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this place: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
I’m in Lagos for a bit, staying at the amazing African Artists Foundation, working on some exciting new projects and snapping away. More soon, but for now, I’m posting lots of photos on Instagram on my own account and also as part of the project EverydayAfrica.
New post up on Guernica Daily about the always interesting Andrea Stultiens.
Get in touch with the African Artists Foundation asap!
From the LagosPhoto blog:
Noor Photographer Stanley Greene will honour us at African Artists’ Foundation with a visit THIS January!
He will offer a 3-day workshop FREE to serious minded photographers interested in photo-documentary. Tentative dates for the workshops are: 7th /8th January and the lecture on the evening of the 9th Q/A.
Take advantage of this unimaginably rare and unique opportunity.
Email: contact@africanartists.org if you are interested in participating in this workshop.
To preview his work: http://www.noorimages.com/newsblog/singleview/article/black-passport/
(c) Stanley Greene